[Glade-users] File Selection Directory

[manu sumerusolutions com (Manu C S)]

Oops! I leaped before I looked! :-)

Found a solution (chdir() before creating the widget) 
for my problem.

Thanks for your patience.

Regards,
Manu

On Wed, 19 Mar 2003, Manu C S wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I need to create a file selection widget which allows
> a user to select some system files.
>
> My problem is that the file selection widget generates
> the file list corresponding to the current working directory
> whereas I need it to list out files residing in another 
> directory. Is there a way?
>
> I tried (foolishly?) to use 
>    system("cd system_directory")
> before creating my widget, but it didn't work.